Janez (given name)

• Janez Burger, film director
• Janez Drnovšek, second president of Slovenia
• Janez Drozg, film director
• Janez Janša, fifth prime minister of Slovenia
• Janez Lapajne, film director
• Janez Semrajč
• Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovene name of Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, scholar and polymath, member of the Royal Society